> > Does anyone remember who first said "In the land of the blind, the
> > one-eyed man is king"?
> SO... I turned to the Web for what turned out to be some intensive but
> ultimately fruitless digging. But first I checked my own reference books,
> which confirmed that it isn't Biblical, nor Shakespearean, nor locatable in
> Bartlett's... away I went.
I believe that Arthur Clark used it in a story he wrote about a
sighted man who lived very briefly in a Land of the Blind, only to find
that in the land of the blind, the man with sight is persecuted. (It
could have been someone else, though. Probably not Asimov, as it just had
a smoother literary texture to it. Clark and Asimov had a "treaty" as to
which of them was a science fiction writer who did literature, and which
was a literary writer who did science fiction. I like them both.)
> I did come across a sig line from a Usenet archive which referenced the
> quote, attributing it to Polyphemus. This sounded vaguely promising, as
> Polyphemus was a character in Homer's Odyssey, a Cyclops (son of
> Poseidon) who held Odysseus and his men captive until being blinded with
> a hot poker. However, I wasn't able to find, either on the Web or
> amongst my books, any variant on the quote in question.
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